#mr. martin

[simonssweater]

SEASON 2 SPOILERS!!

here’s part two, y’all! all the memes I made wouldn’t fit into one post lmao

pt. 1 | — | pt. 3 | pt. 4

[wallyclarksnewmom]

My main takeaway from the first 3 episodes is that we hear Mr. Martin say to Janet "the only way out is to go back in" - to me it seems that the intention was to somehow use these echoes of their deaths (all of their deaths) to cross over.

For some reason Mr. Martin didn't want to tell the others about this but was also forcing Janet to continue it when she wanted to stop.

He also tells Maddie "don't pursue this, I wish I never had" which makes me wonder what the deeper consequences of these death scenes might be - beyond just being upsetting, Mr. Martin wishes he had never known, and yet he hides away in these scenes to avoid telling the kids the truth despite his own apparent terror at them. I'm starting to think his evil actions are good intentions deeply warped over so many years.

[misstankthrust]

how i look accusing my friends of being gay even though i'm 100% gay

[patrickispinky]

Mr.Martin: let’s talk about your emotions

Rhonda: stabby

Mr.Martin: that’s not an emotion, an emotion is more of a feeling.

Rhonda: well, maybe, i’m feeling stabby.

[alittleannihilati0n]

Two school spirit takes that I will die on a hill for:

Simon isn't romantically in love with Maddie and the show didn't imply that, I don't get why people think he was put of the blue confessing to her in the s1 finale

Unless something CRAZY is revealed, it's like sooooo clear that Mr. M is the villain, and Janet is at absolute worst just morally grey. She is a victim!!!

[autumn0689]

[butihadsimon]

So minimal school spirits fandom that I now know exists, what do we think about the theory that this whole thing started bc of a science experiment gone wrong?

(I could be misremembering here so correct me if I am) Mr. Martin and Janet died in a fire in what is now the fallout shelter, and in one of the articles they found another student in the class was blaming Mr. Martin for starting the fire and bringing Janet in there with him.

what if

stay with me here

what if, they were doing some kind of research experiment together (hence the chemical formulas in the beginning of Janet's notebook, and the shorthand) that went wrong, and what they'd done of that experiment plus them dying in the room in the fire with it, trapped their souls there.

which raises the question, when Mr. Martin locked her in that room, was it with the watch? was she experiencing that freaking red room thing relieving that day over and over for months? is that what they were arguing about right before Maddie found them? was he making her relive that to try and figure out where the mistake was in their experiment, because he wanted to try and redo or reverse it and that's why Mr. Martin was trying to force her to tell him what she saw?

as far as we know date wise Janet and Mr. Martin are the oldest ghosts, they've been there longest, they could very well be the start of it all.

[strawberryfanaticccc]

ok i just finished binging school spirits, and i gotta couple of fuckin’ questions ✋

why/how can xavier still talk to maddie’s dad if he’s not dead anymore??

is maddie like legit okay????

did wally crossover?!??!?

what’s goin’ on with janet??

what’s goin’ on with simon & him being able to see mr. martin and janet???

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

school spirits headcanons (sexuality and gender identity edition):

maddie:

queer (was unlabeled for a while and decided that queer was the only word that could describe it)

def had a crush on claire back when they were friends

she/they

wally:

either bisexual or the token straight who everyone thinks is gay

him as an ally: "he a little confused but he got the spirit"

he/him

charley:

canonically gay ofc

demiboy

he/him (has been experimenting with he/they but hasn't settled on it yet)

rhonda:

asexual lesbian as i said before

also vibe with the idea of greysexual (she's definitely somewhere on the ace spectrum is what i'm trying to say)

they/she

simon:

bisexual with a lean towards men

transmasc

he/him (but once he discovers neopronouns it's over for you bitches)

xavier:

gay (i don't care that he's literally shown attraction to two women on-screen i just don't)

he/him

nicole:

lesbian

she/her

claire:

bisexual with a lean towards women

transfem

she/her

quinn:

non-binary

lesbian/trixic

they/them

yuri:

gay

demisexual

he/him (possibly also a neopronouns user)

janet:

aromantic sapiosexual

agender

she/her

everett:

gay

that was 100% a lavender marriage he was getting into

he/him

dawn:

demiromantic and panromantic asexual

transfem and non-binary

would be the most in tune with her gender and sexuality out of all of the ghosts

they/she

[simonssweater]

SEASON 2 SPOILERS!!

here’s another meme drop but in gif form! low quality gifs = higher quality humor imo so I hope you enjoy!

[green-pidgeon]

Wally "devoted sheepdog" Clark... bruh Mr. Martin was spot on

[cassidy273]

Tried using incorrect quotes with School Spirits characters

Maddie: I'm gonna eat the chicken breasts! Simon, snickering: Yeah, eat what you lack. Nicole, deadpanning at Simon: Then maybe I should order brains on delivery for you.

Wally: So, they kissed me. Rhonda: And you kissed them back? Wally: No, I kissed their mouth.

Mr. Martin, to Janet: You're not Mario. Lets get something fucking straight, you're Luigi at best.

Charley: What’s your body count? Yuri: Do you mean sex or murder?

Wally, trying to flirt with Maddie: I think both of our families suck.

Yuri: Here is my wall of inspirational people. Dawn: Is that a picture of you? Yuri: Yes, I am big enough to admit that I am often inspired by myself.

Chloe: Did you miss me while I was gone? Claire: You were gone?

Maddie: Would you rather kill Xavier, or— Simon: Yes, kill them. Maddie: I didn’t say the other thing— Simon: I don’t need to hear it. Xavier: …I’m feeling a little unsafe.

Nicole: What’s sexting? Claire: I'm not having this conversation with you.

Sandra, holding in their laughter: Hey, how do you ask a glass of water what it’s doing? Janet as Maddie: A glass of water is an inanimate object. Therefore, it's incapable of having a thought process or understanding basic human language. Sandra: Sandra: Water you doing?

Wally: What’s sexting? Charley: I'm not having this conversation with you.

Maddie: *venting endlessly to Rhonda about their week* Rhonda, every once in a while: *in a monotone* Wow, that is so wild.

[patrickispinky]

Mr.Martin: Rhonda is at that very special age where a kid only has one thing on their mind.

Wally: Boys?

Rhonda: Homicide

[older1996]

Calling it now the reason why the plot had Simon get split up from the rest of the living kids is because Mr. Martin is going to kill him with that fireplace poker and the suspension letter will be his key.

[jetsteeleyourheart]

School Spirits - Traitor Theory

I was rewatching School Spirits Season 2 with a friend the other night and a single shot changed my entire outlook on one of the characters. I think one of the cast is a traitor, possibly working with some big bad or at least keeping secrets in a huge way.

Spoilers for School Spirits S1 & S2 under the cut!

It says Traitor theory at the top, but what I really wanted to call this was:

School Spirits: Toxic Yuri

What started this:

Episode 6 of Season 2 we see the Gals doing a lot of investigating while the Boys attend Wally's School reunion. When telling this theory to my friends I started by asking them: What was the most exciting, distracting moment in all of season 2?

After they all said seeing Wally's entire ass down the studs, I amended my question: What is the second most exciting, distracting moment of the series and got the answer I was looking for:

The well gif'd TikTok dance to David Bowie's "Let's Dance"

I have seen a ton of GIF sets of this moment, but when re-watching the show I realize the GIF sets always cut out the one shot we get of what Maddie is doing during this time and this shot is the basis of my theory that Wally was right the whole time,

So what shot from the dance sequence am I talking about?

This one - I couldn't find a GIF online so I had to make one myself:

In the middle of the Dance sequence they have this single shot of Maddie, who is currently and importantly NOT in a scar at this moment. We don't find out for a whole episode that the lights flicker when someone enters their scar, so this moment goes by mostly unnoticed.

We have track of most other main ghost characters: Wally, Charley, Rhonda, & Quinn are dancing in the library, Maddie is in the hallway, and Mr. Anderson, while not present, is most likely too fresh off his ghosthood to even know how to access a scar. This leaves Yuri as our only real option for a main character who could be entering his scar.

So what was Yuri Doing in there?

Well, at the beginning of the next episode, while everyone else is having sexy sexy times, Quinn goes into her scar and finds the missing page of Janet's journal, the one that claims she was going lock everyone else away in their scars and leave them there.

So why do I think this was Yuri's doing and not Quinn's? Because Yuri was the only one who had access to the box Janet left in the Pottery Studio - the box where Charley find's Janet's Journal earlier in the season, which already has pages missing from it. Its clear that Yuri knows Janet can create permanent objects and he starts talking to Charley very quickly for someone who has been lying about being able to speak English since the 70s. I would love to believe its because Charley is just that irresistible, but Charley has been around since the 90s. Why now? Why would Yuri try to get in with Charley now specifically. He gets in with Charley very quickly, explaining away his reason for not talking with the others by immediately denouncing Mr. Martin.

Watching the later episodes with this in mind I started viewing everything he said or did with a layer of suspicion. He barely walked into the book racks before coming up with a theory about dopamine receptors in the library when helping Wally and Charley decode parts of Janet's book. He agrees very quickly to going to the dance with Charley as a date for someone who's been a recluse. He even knows how to get into his own scar and that his lighter is his Key - and Yuri, unlike Quinn, never mentions to anyone about going into his scar for the first time, and when we do see him in the last episode when everyone meets up in Rhonda's scar, he doesn't look any more traumatized than the others. In fact, he looks more upset when he sees Charley's scar.

I don't know exactly what he's doing but his main objective appeared to involve making sure Janet gave back Maddie's body no matter what. He frames it as more Yoda wisdom, but I am suspicious of the way he talks to Wally in Episode 7 to convince Wally to let Maddie go. Even the way he's lit in this scene (for those of you who like lighting design theory) shows his face half in light and half in shadow, something I teach to my students as the Harvey Dent Lighting, showing a character is two faced or playing two sides at once. I'm just so suspicious of his motives here. Like why make Wally feel worse than he did before?

Finally at the end of the season I noticed that more often than not Yuri is in the background of almost all of Mr. Martins shots. This isn't so much a grounded theory as my film prof (I teach film classes) brain coming into play, where they are trying to create a visual relationship between Mr. Martin and Yuri on screen by putting them visually together, which Yuri visually having Mr. Martin's back.

My theory is that Yuri knew about Mr. Martin needing Janet to forgive him to move on, and if he does, Mr. Martin will give Yuri something in return. I don't know if Yuri's motivation will be all that bad, and I'm fairly certain he's going to catch feelings for Charley for real if he hasn't already but I do think Wally was right:

Yuri is a spy, and he is lying to all of them.

[autumn0689]

School spirits s2 ep 4 review!

Spoilers below!

Poor Wally and Poor Charley! My gosh poor Charley. They need hugs

Maddie trying to talk to Wally and him pushing her away but he wants to help her but also talk to Mr. Martin

Oh Janet…

Feel so bad for Maddie’s mom. Also her telling the sheriff is wild but yay now the whole gang knows that Maddie is back

Not a lot of Rhonda but I do feel bad for her, and her being with Yuri and Charley in that scene was funny

Mr Martin appearing in Charley’s red room was so wild and oh so proud of him. I love Charley so much

On one hand yay for turning in the phone Simon but my gosh I know it was for comedic effect (at least that’s what I’m assuming) but joking about poking your eye out? Someone give this boy therapy I fear he is losing it

Wally’s neck snapping was… damn, gosh…

MR MARTIN POSSIBLY BODY HOPPED????? Ohhhh everything is so FUCKED

Claire needs a big hug and better parents. The scene with her and Simon was so sad but he listened to her

Xavier and Nicole definitely have ‘they will get together at the end’ vibes.

Xavier failing in reading the note was so hilarious and how Simon just shouts at him for it later, and the trust exercise was so funny Simon is stressed

That scene where Claire and Nicole giggle at each other is just… AAAA THEY ARE FRIENDS

Maddie was also stressing. Feel so bad for her

That final shot! UGH CANT BELIEVE I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK

Overall enjoyed the episode, and how it ended intrigues me